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get amica owinagai >> romney's spokesperson andrea sal lead out the official romney line on msnbc today. >> haven't created a single net new job. >> that was september 4th. excuse me. today romneyost thiargunt thr oor statistics announced a provision to its jobs count from march of 2011 to march of this year. the revised number includes an additional 386,000 jobs. this means more than 5 mlion jobs have been added since presenama ok fice th bin here? there are more jobs now than when the president took over for george w. bush in january of 2009. this has been one of romney's main attacks on the president. and now, it's off the table. romney isn't in a position where he canordoose ais weapons. i think he's scrambling big-time. all the polls show that. on a personal note i can't wait for the debates. one of the lines being used by the republicans right now, the conservatives is that mitt romney is just this great mehea t debater. can somebody remind the american people, and i'll do it right now, that we have a smart guy on our side? president obama, let me remind you, is a fierce competito
get amica owinagai >> romney's spokesperson andrea sal lead out the official romney line on msnbc today. >> haven't created a single net new job. >> that was september 4th. excuse me. today romneyost thiargunt thr oor statistics announced a provision to its jobs count from march of 2011 to march of this year. the revised number includes an additional 386,000 jobs. this means more than 5 mlion jobs have been added since presenama ok fice th bin here? there are more jobs now...
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today romney lost this argument. the beareu of labor statistics bsntm h 01a prision tots march of this year. the revised number includes an additional 386,000 jobs. this meansore than 5 million jobs have been added since president obama took office. the bottom line here? there are more jobs now than when the presidentook er for ge wshjay 2009. this has been one of romney's main attacks on the president. and now, it's off the table. romney isn't in a position where he can afford to lose any of his weapons. i think he's scramblin ti all the polls show that. on a personal note i can't wait for the debates. one of the lines being used by the republicans right now, the conservatives is that mitt romney is just this great debater. i mean, he is a great debater. can somebody remind the american peopleand ll do it right twee ary si president obama, let me remind you, is a fierce competitor. he will be prepared. he knows his material. he knows who he is. he knows his accomplishments and he knows exactly where he wants to take
today romney lost this argument. the beareu of labor statistics bsntm h 01a prision tots march of this year. the revised number includes an additional 386,000 jobs. this meansore than 5 million jobs have been added since president obama took office. the bottom line here? there are more jobs now than when the presidentook er for ge wshjay 2009. this has been one of romney's main attacks on the president. and now, it's off the table. romney isn't in a position where he can afford to lose any of...
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romney is going to win. the reason he's going to win is this was the most-watched debate since 1980 when ronald reagan ran against carter and there was only one debate that year. >> fox news is pulling out all the stops. check out the electoral prediction map fox trotted out today. look at the red states. they gave mitt romney solid democratic states like new mexico and pennsylvania. really? polls should be a snapshot of the current state of the race and there's no doubt mitt romney is benefitting from his debate performance last week. but over "the new york times," the forecast shows president obama still holds a 70% chance of winning the election. the percentage is back in line with the state of the race before the political conventions. president obama made some gains after the dnc. mitt romney erased those gains in the debate. so the race is back to where it was in august. eight years ago today, cnn poll after the first presidential poll put john kerry on top of george bush by one percentage point. the r
romney is going to win. the reason he's going to win is this was the most-watched debate since 1980 when ronald reagan ran against carter and there was only one debate that year. >> fox news is pulling out all the stops. check out the electoral prediction map fox trotted out today. look at the red states. they gave mitt romney solid democratic states like new mexico and pennsylvania. really? polls should be a snapshot of the current state of the race and there's no doubt mitt romney is...
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text a for mitt romney. text b for president barack obama to 6226239 or go to our blog at edmsnbc.com. i'll bring results later in the sh show. joining me now is dr. james peterson. professor, thanks for coming on. it's so hard to know where to begin here because those on the right call this president divisive but the pattern seems to be clear, they do it themselves to try to blame obama for the mess that they have gotten us into with their divisive politics. >> you're right. it's projection politics. i think a certain point the american voting populous is going to grow tired of the karl rove play book. this is what he tries to do all the time. the romney campaign is taking a page out of that play book and the republicans are rallying around this idea that this president is divisive. we don't have to be too smart to understand the ways in which president obama has moved toward consensus with every policy he's started. there's no policy that we can point to where president obama wasn't more interested in cons
text a for mitt romney. text b for president barack obama to 6226239 or go to our blog at edmsnbc.com. i'll bring results later in the sh show. joining me now is dr. james peterson. professor, thanks for coming on. it's so hard to know where to begin here because those on the right call this president divisive but the pattern seems to be clear, they do it themselves to try to blame obama for the mess that they have gotten us into with their divisive politics. >> you're right. it's...
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mitt romney is paying the price. romney is now the leader of the republican party that has spent the last four years doing what? trying to destroy president obama instead of creating a positive vision for the middle class in this country. they have badly missed the mark. today the romney campaign did something we rarely see in presidential campaigns. they held a press conference call in response to an article portraying its campaign in a free fal. the politico piece says romney's convention stumbles have weeks of public griping and internal sniping about not only romney but also his chief strategist. in other words, mr. fix it can't seem to run a campaign. so today romney's campaign strategists announced a shift in strategy. their new man tra will be "status quo versus change." it will include more specifics on policy. let's take a look at here's what mitt romney's brand new ad says. >> my plan is to help the middle class. trade has to work for america. that means crackdown on cheaters like china and open up new mark
mitt romney is paying the price. romney is now the leader of the republican party that has spent the last four years doing what? trying to destroy president obama instead of creating a positive vision for the middle class in this country. they have badly missed the mark. today the romney campaign did something we rarely see in presidential campaigns. they held a press conference call in response to an article portraying its campaign in a free fal. the politico piece says romney's convention...
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>> romney's got to be very, very careful. he caused himself a world of hurt with the hispanic community when he tacked as far to the right as he did in iowa to try to out flank rick perry. in the process of destroying rick perry in iowa, rick perry brought to iowa his rather more broad minded view being from texas. that dug a big hole for mitt romney that he's tried to get out of and he's got a lot of work to do. it can't just be marco rubio doing it. it can't be reciting the history of george w. bush and the republican party in texas. it's got to be mitt romney. this is one he's going to have to sell by himself. you can't do it with surrogates. he's shown the inability to do that kind of thing with any group. >> he sure has. great to have with us. there's a lot more coming up. stay with us. >>> i'm fighting to get the federal government off your back and out of your checkbook. >> republican women in congress are pushing back in the war on women. >>> i have a message to president obama about the battle for wisconsin. >>> toni
>> romney's got to be very, very careful. he caused himself a world of hurt with the hispanic community when he tacked as far to the right as he did in iowa to try to out flank rick perry. in the process of destroying rick perry in iowa, rick perry brought to iowa his rather more broad minded view being from texas. that dug a big hole for mitt romney that he's tried to get out of and he's got a lot of work to do. it can't just be marco rubio doing it. it can't be reciting the history of...
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romney admits details in his romney admits details in his tax returns will be used against him. what details? the romney campaign will not say. romney's spokesperson was asked by politico if there are any years in which romney paid zero dollars in taxes. she replied with two words, not true. well, if it's not true, why not release the tax returns? mitt romney has, if you look at his career, he's changed his mind in this campaign alone on a lot of things. he changed his mind on health care, he changed his mind on social issues. he changed his mind on how to attack the president of the united states in the campaign, but he don't change his mind on releasing his tax returns even with enormous pressure coming from his own party. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. we decide to outsource tonight's question. that's even hard for me to say. we're outsourcing our work to the trumpster? this is courtesy of donald trump. he tweeted today, and sent it out earlier so we're going to use it, what is more important for the american public to have? text a for mitt romney's
romney admits details in his romney admits details in his tax returns will be used against him. what details? the romney campaign will not say. romney's spokesperson was asked by politico if there are any years in which romney paid zero dollars in taxes. she replied with two words, not true. well, if it's not true, why not release the tax returns? mitt romney has, if you look at his career, he's changed his mind in this campaign alone on a lot of things. he changed his mind on health care, he...
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bush endorsed mitt romney today. a reporter for abc news wrote said bush said i'm for mitt romney as the doors of an elevator closed. sounds like a ringing endorsement but it's very appropriate since mitt romney's deficit reduction policies are bush on steroids. romney's proposed tax cuts would cost more than $10.7 trillion, 8 trillion more than bush's tax cuts. it would be impossible to balance a budget. romney hasn't said how he plans to pay for the cuts. the current government just posted a budget surplus for the first time in 42 months. if republicans, seriously, if republicans are able to convince people in this country that president obama is entirely responsible for our national debt, it will be the biggest political hoodwink of modern political times. let's turn to richard wolffe. great to have you with us. it's a heavy lift. i guess you can give the republicans credit for trying to do. can mitt romney convince americans what happened in the bush years and what started to dig us in this hole. >> if he does th
bush endorsed mitt romney today. a reporter for abc news wrote said bush said i'm for mitt romney as the doors of an elevator closed. sounds like a ringing endorsement but it's very appropriate since mitt romney's deficit reduction policies are bush on steroids. romney's proposed tax cuts would cost more than $10.7 trillion, 8 trillion more than bush's tax cuts. it would be impossible to balance a budget. romney hasn't said how he plans to pay for the cuts. the current government just posted a...
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romney said to let it go bankrupt. one said to make sure under the law women get equal pay for equal work. one voted down the line against it. one saw 40 million uninsured americans sitting in emergency ro rooms, the other says to let them sit there. that's "hardball" for now. thank you for being with us. "the ed show" starts right now. >>> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from miami, florida. 28 days until the 2012 election. the polls are tightening and the youth vote in the state of florida could be the savior for the president in this state. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >>> we need you fired up. i love you back, but i need you voting. >> on the the last day for voter registration in ohio and florida and 15 other states, the president is pounding the stump as the romney lie tour continues. >> you have to scratch your head when the president talks about big bird. >> the state of the race. another billionaire ceo is threatening his employees to vote romney or else. >> i'm the ceo of t
romney said to let it go bankrupt. one said to make sure under the law women get equal pay for equal work. one voted down the line against it. one saw 40 million uninsured americans sitting in emergency ro rooms, the other says to let them sit there. that's "hardball" for now. thank you for being with us. "the ed show" starts right now. >>> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from miami, florida. 28 days until the 2012 election. the...
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romney was on message according to some. in some strange way, could this help romney with his base? >> i don't know. i think the folks who are going to respond positively to this were already voting against president obama. few people will turn out. but i just don't see how this statement helps him. there's so many people he is putting in that dependent category who think of themselves as hardworking republicans. so i don't see how this helps. >> social security, medicare, i don't think he was talking about that. i think he was talking about medicaid. people who are on medicaid -- the elderly, no fault of their own, they don't want to be there. no one wants to be in poor circumstances. no one wants to be unemployed. is he talking about unemployment benefits as well? the 9e9ers, the whole group? i think this is a definition that we have heard in the past of two americas and he doesn't want to care about a portion of our society, which i find absolutely amazing. >> i do too. but to get to 47% of all of us, you've got to get up into the middle class. so he's talking about a vast swath
romney was on message according to some. in some strange way, could this help romney with his base? >> i don't know. i think the folks who are going to respond positively to this were already voting against president obama. few people will turn out. but i just don't see how this statement helps him. there's so many people he is putting in that dependent category who think of themselves as hardworking republicans. so i don't see how this helps. >> social security, medicare, i don't...
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they all do what romney does? >> it was really striking when we looked at the list and went down name after name after name. and saw 10 out of the 11 top names on this list were people who were stashing not millions but billions of dollars overseas. we don't know because he won't disclose what he's hiding, but wi knee what the companies are hiding. citigroup, the number one abuser of offshore tax havens has over 1200 tax havens. that's jun one of them. you mentioned the accounting firms and tax swiss is a bank that is under investigation by the department of justice right now for helping americans evade taxes by hiding them in swiss bank accounts. k >> the question in the interview was is it unpit reotic? is it patriotic? is it the american thing to do to take your money offshore? romney said he's not hiding anything and reports like yours that you came out with are just a distraction. what's your response in. >> contrary to what lindsey graham and others have said, it's not american to hide your income from the g
they all do what romney does? >> it was really striking when we looked at the list and went down name after name after name. and saw 10 out of the 11 top names on this list were people who were stashing not millions but billions of dollars overseas. we don't know because he won't disclose what he's hiding, but wi knee what the companies are hiding. citigroup, the number one abuser of offshore tax havens has over 1200 tax havens. that's jun one of them. you mentioned the accounting firms...
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mitt romney's team is a dandy. they lied about the war on women, the automobile loan and the death of the number one terrorist. tonight i'm going to set the record straight. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i recommends that people take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pakistan and take out bin laden. >> mitt romney is running away from his rhetoric on bin laden, and he's digging a deeper hole in the process. >> richard wolffe on his disaster. >>> time after time the republicans have gotten together and they've said no. >> the president makes the case to workers. republicans are the problem. >> i send them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing road, bridge, transit systems. they still said no. howard fineman on the president's big speech on jobs. >>> it was another war orn women train wreck. >> it's about policy and whether or not you want to fix the structure discriminatio
mitt romney's team is a dandy. they lied about the war on women, the automobile loan and the death of the number one terrorist. tonight i'm going to set the record straight. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i recommends that people take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pakistan and take out bin laden. >> mitt romney is running away from his rhetoric on bin laden, and he's digging a deeper hole...
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protesters gathering outside romney's fund-raising luncheon in arizona today. it shows the importance of immigration reform. arizona was smack down to try to get its own immigration policy in new crimes to target ilgrnlts. racial profiling. this is an issue to be decided on the federal level. it's interesting how a right wing court said no state rights here, guys. it's got to be the federal law. the one presidential candidate that has a comprehensive position on immigration is the guy that aurd has the oval office. the other guy is out to lunch withbillionaires. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, will republicans pay the price at the polls for their position on immigration? text a for yes, b for no, to 622639. you can go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. can we start from this vantage point? that both parties have failed on this issue but it's an awfully big lift, and this president has really done something whether you like it or not. most latinos do. joining me tonight is congressman rob g
protesters gathering outside romney's fund-raising luncheon in arizona today. it shows the importance of immigration reform. arizona was smack down to try to get its own immigration policy in new crimes to target ilgrnlts. racial profiling. this is an issue to be decided on the federal level. it's interesting how a right wing court said no state rights here, guys. it's got to be the federal law. the one presidential candidate that has a comprehensive position on immigration is the guy that aurd...
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a 28 minute documentally called "when mitt romney came to town." >> romney netted 230% profit for romney and his investors. the deal left behind a trail of wreckage. >> i'm convinced if you want to create jobs, it helps to have a job. i've had jobs. i'll use that experience to help america. >> they never, no matter how much -- no matter how much they already had, they should never get enough money. >> mitt romney and bain saw 900% return on their investment. romney and bain's profits at the expense of 15,000 jobs was described by the boston herald as disgusting. >> i should mention the parent company is the co-owner of the weather capital with bain company. the movie is airing in south carolina in ads. the tea party senator jim demint said romney will probably win the state. but when he gets to south carolina he will be seeing more tv ads attacking him than he has ever seen before. billionaire casino owner sheldon adelson donated to the campaign, also attacking romney's stance on abortion. >> romney appointed a pro abortion judge, expanded access to abortion pills, failed to put the pro
a 28 minute documentally called "when mitt romney came to town." >> romney netted 230% profit for romney and his investors. the deal left behind a trail of wreckage. >> i'm convinced if you want to create jobs, it helps to have a job. i've had jobs. i'll use that experience to help america. >> they never, no matter how much -- no matter how much they already had, they should never get enough money. >> mitt romney and bain saw 900% return on their investment....
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that's what romney has said. this facts don't fit what they want or what they think the reality is. >> where does this all fit on the hypocrisy scale for republicans? this has been a big weekend for lies and distortions. this is one of the biggest ones, but where does this fit in your opinion? >> of course it's hypocrite cal. there's something far worse going on here. there is actually the kind of politics that we saw through the last eight years of the bush administration and through this whole republican contest which is the politics of fear. it's not just about tone. say you agree with their premise, which i don't, but say you agree there's some politics going on around this anniversary for the obama folks. let's compare the politics. you've got a concerted effort through 2004 and beyond saying that president bush was going to keep us safe even when the eft from iraq and elsewhere is we were less safe. there was the idea that fear is what we needed to expand the government. they say it's such a terrible thing
that's what romney has said. this facts don't fit what they want or what they think the reality is. >> where does this all fit on the hypocrisy scale for republicans? this has been a big weekend for lies and distortions. this is one of the biggest ones, but where does this fit in your opinion? >> of course it's hypocrite cal. there's something far worse going on here. there is actually the kind of politics that we saw through the last eight years of the bush administration and...
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let me give mitt romney this much. if there's anything bush did i respected, he was willing to throw in his free market ideology which didn't work and helped get us in to the mess and that we couldn't let everything go down the drain. i agree, it was better to do t.a.r.p. than not and barack obama could have played politics for it right before the election, voted for it and that chart you showed is that the recession started under bush. if romney wants to run on the bush economy, i think president obama would welcome that. the job loss has continued seriously for three or four months after obama took office and they passed the stimulus and slowly we started coming back. the second thing he forgets, we almost went under in march in 2009. the people in the white house were petrified the whole system despite t.a.r.p. would collapse again. >> how much of an impact did the stimulus package have? in hindsight, we probably wouldn't have had these 24 months of private sector job growth had we not done the stimulus package. >>
let me give mitt romney this much. if there's anything bush did i respected, he was willing to throw in his free market ideology which didn't work and helped get us in to the mess and that we couldn't let everything go down the drain. i agree, it was better to do t.a.r.p. than not and barack obama could have played politics for it right before the election, voted for it and that chart you showed is that the recession started under bush. if romney wants to run on the bush economy, i think...